Six RSS Resources for the Internet Professional or Web Strategist

Categories: Syndication, Web Tools, Web UsagePosted on November 25th, 2006

I noticed a trend in several RSS articles and posts being published, I’ve collected a few of the more helpful ones, including the primer from Wikipedia up front. Feel free to leave comments with additional resources.

Primer: Wikipedia on RSS
Don’t know what RSS is? As a Marketer, Web Professional, or communicator, being knowledgeable about RSS is important in this current web era.

RSS for the People
Although I’ve always thought the BBC version of explaining RSS was classic, this version explained by Paul Kim leverages what the LA Fire department has figured out. It’s truly a pro-consumer point of view.

Who’s using what for RSS
Analysis of which feedreaders are being used and usage of RSS. It doesn’t answer “who” is using RSS, but research this time last year from Yahoo suggested that it tended to be younger technology folks. No surprised there.

42 uses of RSS and Atom Feeds
Really Simple Syndication is a protocol, a vehicle, and a tool that can be used to meet a variety of purposes. This brain stormer gives some practical applications of using RSS and the applications currently avaialble. My suggestion: create a feedreader on your enterprise Intranet to assist with creating customized homepages.

RSS Subscription for Podcasts low
A few days ago I covered that podcast subscription may be low, but it’s quickly growing according to Pew internet research

RSS finally taking off, thanks to IE7 and Firefox?
Now that both dominant browsers (IE is massively the lead) and Firefox both offer feedreader abilities, not to mention most web mail and the future Outlook12 will this be the tools needed to take RSS mainstream?

Oh, one other confusing thing: I hear people describing RSS as a Push, and a Pull medium, in your opinion, which is it?

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Storagezilla

Oh good grief when I see questions like that I know you've been assimilated by the Web 2.0 Borg. ;-p Does it matter if it's push or pull? We'll know it's successful when it becomes invisible.

With luck one day there won't even be an icon for RSS, you'll just hit subscribe on whatever you're looking at regardless of what and where it is and you'll be set.

Dominic Jones

How about "fake push"?

jeremiah_owyang

Storagezilla

Heh, In the long run, you’re right. But for the short term it does matter.

Traditional Marketers may have a hard time understanding that RSS content can easily be subscribed or unsubscribed, and those that don\’t create content thinking about what’s best for the subscriber may end up with few folks pulling in the feed.

Dominic, I guess it depends on who's point of view we're asking for. RSS consumers may think it's a pull and RSS creators may think it's a push.